Sitewide Free Shipping - Limited Time Only - No Minimum Spend - T&C's Apply
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
The Big Marsh : The Story of a Lost Landscape - Cheri Register

The Big Marsh

The Story of a Lost Landscape

By: Cheri Register

eBook | 6 April 2016 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eBook

RRP $25.40

$20.99

17%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $5.25 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County's Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources for the neighboring communities. Families hunted its immense flocks of migrating waterfowl, fished its waters, trapped muskrats and mink, and harvested wood and medicinal plants. As farmland prices rose, however, the value of the land under the water became more attractive to people with capital. While residents fought bitterly, powerful outside investors overrode local opposition and found a way to drain 18,000 acres of wetland at public expense.

Author Cheri Register stumbled upon her great-grandfather's scathing critique of the draining and was intrigued. Following the clues he left, she uncovers the stories of life on the Big Marsh and of the "connivers" who plotted its end: the Minneapolis land developer, his local fixer, an Illinois banker, and the lovelorn local lawyer who did their footwork.

The Big Marsh, an environmental history told from a personal point of view, shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now.
on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionNature & The Natural WorldWildlife in GeneralWildlife & Aquatic CreaturesFreshwater LifeHistoryRegional & National HistoryHistory of the Americas

More in Freshwater Life

Rivers Run : An Angler's Journey From Source to Sea - Kevin Parr

eBOOK

Rivers Run

An Angler's Journey From Source to Sea

eBook

RRP $18.49

$15.99

14%
OFF
Walden - Henry David Thoreau

eBOOK

Walden

eBook

$0.99

River Hymnal : Poems - Cody Smith

eBOOK

River Hymnal

Poems

eBook

RRP $27.10

$21.99

19%
OFF
The Po : An Elegy for Italy's Longest River - Tobias Jones

eBOOK

The Po

An Elegy for Italy's Longest River

eBook

RRP $23.99

$20.99

13%
OFF
Mudlarking : Lost and Found on the River Thames - Lara Maiklem

eBOOK

Mudlarking

Lost and Found on the River Thames

eBook

RRP $21.59

$18.99

12%
OFF
The Functional Ecology of Freshwater Mussels - Caryn C. Vaughn

eBOOK

The Functional Ecology of Freshwater Mussels

eBook

RRP $127.01

$108.99

14%
OFF

This product is categorised by